E. Frances White

E. Frances White is a historian, author, and academic serving as Professor Emerita of History and Black Studies at NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study. Her teaching and research interests include the history of Africa and its diaspora, history of gender and sexuality, and critical race theory. Her books include Sierra Leone’s Settler Women Traders, Women in Sub-Saharan Africa, and Dark Continent of Our Bodies. She is well-known for writing about sexism in Black nationalisms that romanticize African patriarchal traditions.